You spin me right round baby !!

Goodbye sweet friend. Today I posted my beloved turntables and mixer onto e-bay for auction. I will cherish the time we spent together, the memories ... and most of all, the dancing. Life with three kids has got to me in some ways. Whether it's the space, the amplifer locality, or the little hands that just can't help but break things....there has been a reason for the past four years for seriously funky sounds to stay on the vinyl they were pressed into some time ago. It is with a little regret that I release my treasured spinning toys, but on receipt of the proceeds of the auction I will be buying myself a beautiful blue log. Not the tree type logs, but a handcrafted 9'8" sinle fin surfboard 3.75" thick which screams .."watch out, coming through!"

If you want to check them out, http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Technics-SL1200-MK2-turntables-with-Vestax-PMC-06-Pro_W0QQitemZ290304870090QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_DJ_Gear_Lighting_Equipment?hash=item290304870090&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Coen George Star

Your name means 'thunder' ... because unlike lightening, your feet don't seem to touch the ground.

Ziah Eden Star

monkey in the grass


on my front lawn

you look like a tiger

greeting the new dawn.

This star is special
like every star is.



He shines like a real sun.

Liviya Raven Star

This little star. She is quite amazing. Can you blame me for not getting the large majority of my 'work' done? This is the beginning of my real blog. I had always intended to really start it once my university studies resumed. I said to myself that I would be a slave to the computer once more, and it would be a good break from my studies when I am on campus.

This photo was taken when Liviya was two days old. She has now spent as much time outside the womb as she did inside.

Life with two children (as parents with more say) was easy. Especially when they both ate the same food and slept the same times. Ziah and Coen were just starting to play really well together as well. Then along came princess. Sleeping arrangements changed, then we moved house, then Mum got Cancer, thence came more work and more and more. More Love. More than anything, she has brought a sense of balance to the house (after alot of see-sawing mind you!) and I am so glad to have her. I love my little princess.

NEw LiFE

Christmas and the New Year are a time of over-spending and over-eating... and just living large. I have been out of sorts of late. Just a little run down I think, but a few days ago I got a virus that came on fast and hard and caught me with my pants down. After going to bed with a fever I woke a few hours later in a state of panic. I really thought that I was dying and had just seconds to live. It was horrific to feel that way. I had Cancer (Melanoma) almost five years ago and my mind was telling me that this is how you feel when your organs are shutting down. It was telling me that my last check up was too long ago and the doctor didn't order a blood test and x-ray for the first time .... maybe that's how the secondary Cancer grew in my body and was about to kill me!! Silly mind. Must be the silly season.

I broke free of this mental state and went outside (very slowly, for I was very dizzy) and tried my best to live. Breathing slowly and inhaling the trees that surround my home. I Breathed in the clouds and the flowers and the love that I have for my three little stars and Melanie. I clapped my hands and stamped my feet (I was off the planet!) and promised to honour myself. It took half an hour or so, but I did come back to earth and I think my temperature came down quite a bit too. And I felt better. MAYBE we should all come back to Earth and bring down the temperature of the globe. It was a quite profound experience for me. Strangely more than the Cancer treatments and surgeries. I have a new respect for life. New Life. The real meaning of Christmas and the New Year. I remembered who I am, and why I am here. It was nice.

Serenity ....... aaaahhh....! This is not me. I have just finished frothing (milk) my way through the morning and am waiting to join the frothy ocean for a few waves. The ocean is heaving and the wind is gusting [HARD!!] ... so although the conditions aren't the same as the photo, my inner feeling will be the same. Funny, that. Today I am pondering connections and how we magnetise (this is how we spell it in Australia) our thoughts and feelings in particular ways according to what is in our recent consciousness. For example, when you buy a new car, and suddenly you find other cars the same everwhere!! and.... i just bought a new bodyboard to surf with and found all the feelings of my teenage years come flooding back (when I fist started bodyboarding). Association, connections, consiousness .... the human mind is a wonderful gift. Sometimes it is a real pain in the arse. Mmmmm.

Oh ... freedom.

Oh to be free. It means just about everything to everyone, but we all seem to find it in different ways and in different places ... thank goodness for that!! For me, I found it in my Kombi, whether it was moving or not. I find it in the ocean, whether I am swimming, surfing, bodyboarding, floating .... but especially when i am riding a wave or inside the tube (barrel). I am free in my country to say whatever I please, really free ... and my government allows this, I do not know of many who truly are. To be Australian is really quite unique, because we are all born free here, and I thank the traditional landowners of this country, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders for setting such a great example on how to truly live. It took me to have Cancer to appreciate this. What makes you free? How do you live?